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The United States Supreme Court has rejected the appeal filed by Texas asking to cancel the result of the presidential elections of last November 3 in four states, won by Joe Biden: Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Georgia. The cause was the latest attempt by outgoing President Donald Trump’s allies to try to subvert the election result. The judges of the Court ruled in the late afternoon of Friday, December 11 (in Italy it was the early hours of the following Saturday) that the request from Texas had no legal basis and was not acceptable.
Trump commented on the decision on Twitter saying, “The Supreme Court has really let us down. No common sense. Without courage! “On Monday, December 14, the Electoral College, that is, the elected representatives to the presidential elections of each state, will meet to formally elect Biden.
The Supreme Court really disappointed us. Without wisdom, without value!
– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 12, 2020
The appeal filed by Texas had received the support of 17 other states governed by Republicans and a hundred Republican legislators and was received very positively by Trump, despite the fact that the legal inconsistency of the initiative had already been denounced by numerous experts before the The case was brought before the Supreme Court. Yet it was an unprecedented attempt to unreasonably override the will of millions of voters.
Ken Paxton, Texas attorney general and quite controversial politician under investigation for various crimes, had brought the case accusing Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Georgia of compromising the regularity of elections by allowing the counting of votes that arrived by mail in the days post-election. even if shipped on time. On behalf of Texas, Paxton had argued that these decisions, which are up to individual states, had influenced the national outcome with consequences for other states as well.
This assumption had been criticized by numerous jurists and defined interference in the internal affairs of individual states, because the competence over electoral regulations rests with them. In a way, it was as if Texas were suing Pennsylvania for the way it elects its representatives.
The appeal also contained very weak legal arguments with some falsehoods: for example, it cited an estimate that Biden’s chances of winning in those four states were less than one in a million trillion, an absurd claim and refuted by all analyzes. statistics. dedicated to the choice.
Commenting on the Supreme Court decision, a Biden spokesman said he was “not surprised by the outcome” given the “baseless” attempt to deny Trump’s defeat in the presidential election.
Five weeks before the presidential election, and a month after Biden’s unofficial proclamation, Trump has yet to admit defeat in the presidential election and continues to file allegations of fraud and wrongdoing, which he has never been able to prove. The dozens of cases and appeals filed so far in the courts of various states have been rejected or dismissed. The transition process between his administration and that of Biden has begun, albeit with delay and with various obstacles that could compromise the effectiveness of the succession.
This week the deadline for the so-called “safe harbor” has passed, that is, the day on which states must certify their electoral results if they want to prevent Congress from theoretically having the right to challenge them. Almost everyone did it on time, further reducing the chances of the outcome changing. With the vote of the large voters on Monday, these possibilities, practically nil at this time, will be substantially exhausted.
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